# Has something changed in how page views are shown in the dashboard report?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-something-changed-in-how-page-views-are-shown-in-the-dashboard-report/412614
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** dashboard-reports, fixed
**Created:** [16 september 2026 om 22:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-something-changed-in-how-page-views-are-shown-in-the-dashboard-report/412614 "2026-09-16T22:23:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [16 september 2026 om 22:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-something-changed-in-how-page-views-are-shown-in-the-dashboard-report/412614/1 "2026-09-16T22:23:58Z")
Today I noticed this in my dashboard report:
> **Just in case I enabled the upcoming change for dashboard reports - it's the same**
>
> 
I know I visited my forums in the past days. [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) also returns visits:
> **Query**
>
> ```sql
> -- [params]
> -- date :start_date = 17 aug 2026
> -- date :end_date = 17 sep 2026
>
> SELECT
> ar.date,
>
> SUM(
> CASE
> WHEN ar.req_type = 15 THEN ar.count
> ELSE 0
> END
> ) AS page_views_logged_in,
>
> SUM(
> CASE
> WHEN ar.req_type = 13 THEN ar.count
> ELSE 0
> END
> ) AS page_views_anonymous
>
> FROM application_requests ar
>
> WHERE ar.date >= :start_date
> AND ar.date <= :end_date
> AND ar.req_type IN (13, 15)
>
> GROUP BY ar.date
> ORDER BY ar.date ASC
>
> ```
What happened to the other page views on my dashboard?
* * *
Edit: Had a look at the pageviews in the past months
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [17 september 2026 om 00:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-something-changed-in-how-page-views-are-shown-in-the-dashboard-report/412614/2 "2026-09-17T00:01:46Z")
Looks like all my views are considered “other traffic” now.
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### Author:  [@kris.kotlarek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kris.kotlarek)
#### Post date: [17 september 2026 om 04:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-something-changed-in-how-page-views-are-shown-in-the-dashboard-report/412614/5 "2026-09-17T04:23:46Z")
Thank you for reporting this. We are in transition on how browser pageviews are measured. My theory is that 6th of July you had a new dashboard enabled for a moment (with the new tracking method enabled), and you disabled it. It is totally fine, but the graph should move back to use numbers from the old tracking.
I have a PR with the fix:
>
>
> Two transports count browser pageviews. A beacon request sends one count. A head…er on a usual request sends the other count. Both transports can record the same visit. Thus a report must read only one of them for each day.
>
> Before this change, a report found the first day with beacon data. It then read the beacon counters for that day and for all later days. One day with beacon data was sufficient to make this decision.
>
> Some sites recorded beacon data on one early day only. Beacons were behind a feature flag. On these sites, a report read a beacon count of zero for all later days. The site traffic report subtracts the browser pageviews from the total pageviews. The remainder is "other traffic". Thus all traffic became "other traffic".
>
> A report now makes this decision for each day. It reads the beacon counters on each day that recorded beacon traffic. It reads the header counters on the other days. A day with no beacon data does not change the other days.
>
> The admin dashboard traffic service had the same decision in its own query. It now uses the same rule as the reports.
>
> Reported on Meta: https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-something-changed-in-how-page-views-are-shown-in-the-dashboard-report/412614
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [17 september 2026 om 06:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-something-changed-in-how-page-views-are-shown-in-the-dashboard-report/412614/6 "2026-09-17T06:53:43Z")
> [@kris.kotlarek](#):
>
> My theory is that 6th of July you had a new dashboard enabled for a moment (with the new tracking method enabled), and you disabled it.
That’s right
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [18 september 2026 om 07:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-something-changed-in-how-page-views-are-shown-in-the-dashboard-report/412614/7 "2026-09-18T07:18:08Z")
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [20 september 2026 om 07:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-something-changed-in-how-page-views-are-shown-in-the-dashboard-report/412614/8 "2026-09-20T07:46:38Z")